Some fans probably think Tim Tebow should be in the Mets' opening day lineup next season. Those people are irrational.
It's not irrational to say Tebow could, in a year or two, make himself a serviceable baseball player. Count Mets hitting coach Kevin Long in that camp.
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“He’s put together like no other athlete I’ve ever seen,” Long said Wednesday in an interview with Indianapolis radio host and ESPN college basketball analyst Dan Dakich. “He’s got a lot of work to do, he understands that.